Are these the next big kitchen trends?

Chances are if you have a lot of cookbooks, you also have a lot
of kitchen equipment. When you see all of those delicious recipes
you simply must try, items like tagines, Dutch ovens, stand mixers,
and specialty baking pans find their way into your home. The folks
at Cook's Illustrated have just returned from eyeing new equipment from the 2017 International Home and
Housewares Show that might have you putting even more things
into your online shopping cart.

"Smart" appliances are high on the list of trends. The
technology ranges from blenders that sense how full they are and
adjust blending time to grills you can control from your
smartphone. Healthy eating gadgets consume an ever-growing share of
attention, with more tools like vegetable spiralizers and air
fryers.

Multi-cookers like the Instant Pot strut their stuff with new
functions, but there are even more innovative items in the
works. A microwave pressure
cooker made by Kuhn Rikon
Corporation took home an innovation award from the show, and other
upgrades included multi-cooker lids that can be more easily
attached and evolutions in slow cooker technology.

Not all of the
items are big; smaller items are also trending. The show featured
pint-sized versions of air fryers, blenders, among others, and
other items are getting storage makeovers. The team at CI noticed
"several griddle models that are designed to store vertically
without tipping and can be disassembled and nested inside the
griddle base." All the more room to store new
equipment.

3 Comments

I'm not so sure, I just posted on your Facebook post so I won't duplicate here but some of these appliances are so out of our price range that I know I couldn't even look at them, others are so complicated that I wouldn't want to read the manual or have to refer to it when I can't figure something out. I can do fine with the basic appliance that is well made and can last. Like our Kenmore washer/dryer set lasting 18 years and our GE side by side w/a beverage center still running after 17 years, ice maker included and only ever needing one repair (under warranty)